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• ​The adorable stories written by Brownies in Addiscombe

  09-04-2017 20:12 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Brownies in Addiscombe put their creativity to the test as leaders invited the Advertiser along to show them what it takes to become a journalist. Leaders at the 12th Addiscombe Brownies, who meet at Our Lady of the Annunciation Church Hall, on Bingham Road, are keen to show the girls a range of career choices, with them meeting Croydon firefighters previously. Reporter Samantha Booth showed the girls, aged between seven and 10, stories from the newspaper, including pieces about Joan Pick,...
  
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• Appeal after shots fired in Thornton Heath

  09-04-2017 17:50 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  Detectives are appealing for witnesses and information  after shots were fired in Thornton Heath.
  
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• Channel 4 presenter to reopen Purley post office tomorrow -...

  09-04-2017 16:45 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A historic post office in Purley is to reopen its doors tomorrow morning after it was rescued by a television presenter and her husband.Laura Hamilton, best known for presenting Channel 4's A Place In The Sun, and her husband Alex Goward, who was born in Purley and went to the Whitgift School, revealed in December that they had plans to renovate The Lord Roberts on the Green.It will open to the public on Monday (April 10) morning at 8am.The couple, who have lived on the Webb Estate for the last.
  
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• Channel 4 preseneter to reopen Purley post office tomorrow -...

  09-04-2017 16:45 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A historic post office in Purley is to reopen its doors tomorrow morning after it was rescued by a television presenter and her husband.Laura Hamilton, best known for presenting Channel 4's A Place In The Sun, and her husband Alex Goward, who was born in Purley and went to the Whitgift School, revealed in December that they had plans to renovate The Lord Roberts on the Green.It will open to the public on Monday (April 10) morning at 8am.The couple, who have lived on the Webb Estate for the last.
  
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• Police investigating after gun shot heard near Thornton Heath...

  09-04-2017 16:21 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Police are investigating after a gun shot was heard near Thornton Heath Recreation Ground believed to have been fired at moped riders.Officers were called at about 4.30pm on Friday to reports of the gun shot noise near the park and found evidence of shotgun discharge at the end of Winterbourne Road.At this stage, police said they have not found, nor been informed of, anybody being injured.READ MORE: Police looking for missing Norbury girl who said she was going to trampoline parkWitnesses told..
  
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• SCORCHER! Britons bask in sunshine on hottest day of the year

  09-04-2017 14:47 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  Britons are enjoying the hottest day of the year so far.
  
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• Croydon Council 'urges' Jeremy Hunt to help reverse plan to stop IVF funding - Croydon Advertiser

  09-04-2017 13:54 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
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  Croydon Council 'urges' Jeremy Hunt to help reverse plan to stop IVF funding
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  The leader of Croydon Council is urging the Government to review a controversial decision to stop funding IVF treatment in the borough. A letter from the council's health and social care scrutiny committee calls on the Secretary of State for Health ...
  
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• First female Met Police Commissioner begins role next week

  09-04-2017 13:28 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  The first female Metropolitan Police Commissioner will formally take charge of the country's largest police force on Monday.
  
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• Devoted husband pleads for Kaiser Chiefs to play gig at their Croydon home for pregnant wife - Croydon Advertiser

  09-04-2017 13:22 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
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  Devoted husband pleads for Kaiser Chiefs to play gig at their Croydon home for pregnant wife
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  A Croydon man is pleading for Kaiser Chiefs to play for his pregnant wife at their home after she was too ill to attend the gig he won tickets for last month. Ben and Kate Franklin, of Addiscombe Grove, couldn't afford to buy tickets to see the indie ...
  
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• Why orange ribbons have appeared around the Shrublands estate...

  09-04-2017 13:11 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Refugee organisations have visited Shirley's Shrublands estate to condemn the attack on a 17-year-old asylum seeker.Members of the Croydon Young Refugee Network (CYRN) tied orange ribbons to a bus stop and The Goat pub's railings near where Rekar Ahmed and his two friends, also asylum seekers, were assaulted.The colour orange was chosen because it was the colour of the Refugee Olympic Team.Ellie Shepard, a service manager at Pathways to Indepdence, one of the 30 organisations which form the...
  
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• The Croydon pacifist who paid with his life for his refusal to go...

  09-04-2017 12:21 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Nowadays if you were to choose not to go to war, it would be accepted, respected and even admired by some. However, 102 years ago, when Britain was in the midst of one of the world's bloodiest wars, to announce you were a pacifist was seen as a crime.Despite knowing the consequences of his decision one determined Addiscombe-born man made a stand against the bloody slaughter of the Great War, and became a conscientious objector at a time when it was almost unheard of. Tragically, his decision...
  
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• Devoted husband pleads for Kaiser Chiefs to play gig at their...

  09-04-2017 11:49 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A Croydon man is pleading for Kaiser Chiefs to play for his pregnant wife at their home after she was too ill to attend the gig he won tickets for last month. Ben and Kate Franklin, of Addiscombe Grove, couldn't afford to buy tickets to see the indie rock band at The O2 Arena in March. But when Ben, 33, won tickets through a Twitter competition he said his 31-year-old wife – who is a "huge" fan – was "over the moon" having been through a difficult pregnancy...
  
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• Teenage girl missing from Norbury

  09-04-2017 11:23 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  A teenage girl  from Norbury has been missing for two days after telling her family she was going trampolining.
  
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• PHOTOS: Purley home with an amazing summerhouse on sale for...

  09-04-2017 11:06 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A beautiful five-bedroom detached house in Purley is up for sale for £830,000. Tucked away down Bury Close, a popular cul-de-sac with house hunters, this spacious home has been extended to include a fabulous kitchen/dining room, a garden which measures in excess of 70 feet, a summerhouse and a detached garage.It has been extended on the ground floor to provide a rear aspect kitchen/dining room which enjoys views over the garden.The home has a spacious entrance hall, downstairs cloakroom...
  
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• Croydon Council 'urges' Jeremy Hunt to help reverse plan to stop...

  09-04-2017 10:36 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  The leader of Croydon Council is urging the Government to review a controversial decision to stop funding IVF treatment in the borough.A letter from the council's health and social care scrutiny committee calls on the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt to look at the Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group's (CCG) cost-cutting decision to withdraw funding for IVF.It argues that the decision to remove access to IVF will mean that those in the most deprived, low-income areas will be unable to.
  
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• Campaigners march through Croydon town centre in solidarity after asylum seeker attack - Croydon Advertiser

  09-04-2017 02:57 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Campaigners march through Croydon town centre in solidarity after asylum seeker attack
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  More than 100 people joined a solidarity march in Croydon town centre on Saturday following the attack last week on a young asylum seeker in Croydon. The event, organised by Stand Up To Racism, saw participants march from outside Marks & Spencer in ...
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• Police looking for missing Norbury girl who said she was going to...

  09-04-2017 01:51 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A girl said she was going to a trampoline park before going missing from her Norbury home on Friday.Aisha Javaid, 16, was last seen at around 12pm on April 7 leaving her home in Pollards Hill South stating she was going to a trampoline park.Officers and her family are concerned as it is significantly out of character and she has never gone missing before, and she has never stayed away from home overnight, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said.Aisha is described by police as Asian around 4ft 11ins
  
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• Teenager stabbed in South Norwood went into takeaway shouting...

  09-04-2017 01:34 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Staff at a takeaway helped a teenage boy who stumbled in shouting "help" after he had been stabbed in South Norwood. Haci Murat Kozan, a worker at Hotline kebab and pizza restaurant, in Portland Road, said the boy, thought to be 16 years old, came inside injured with about a 10cm wound to the left of his torso on Saturday night at about 9.30pm.
  Haci said: "He was bleeding, it looked like he had been attacked with a big knife. "He was just shouting 'help'."We...
  
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• Teenage boy, 16, stabbed in South Norwood - latest updates ... - Croydon Advertiser

  09-04-2017 01:32 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Police have cordoned off part of a main road in South Norwood after a teenage boy was stabbed on Saturday night. Officers and paramedics were called to ...and more »
  
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• Teenage boy, 16, stabbed in South Norwood - latest updates

  09-04-2017 00:51 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Police have cordoned off part of a main road in South Norwood after a teenage boy was stabbed on Saturday night. Officers and paramedics were called to Portland Road at about 9.30pm. A 16-year-old boy was found suffering from stab wounds. The Metropolitan Police say the victim's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening or life-changing.
  READ MORE: The most dangerous places to live in Croydon according to crime statsA police cordon remains in place on Portland Road outside the Hot...
  
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